Ice-runway.



No. 704,450. Patented luly 8, |902.

. F. H. & C. H. EICHHORN &. F.v P. DERNELL.

ICE RUNWAY.

(Application led Feb. 19, 1902.)

(No Model.)

IINTTRD STATES PATENT OFFICE.`

FREDERICK H. EICHHORN, CHARLES H. EICHHORN, AND FREDERICK P. DERNELL, OFATHENS, NEW YORK.

ICE-RUNWAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 704,450, dated July 8,1902. Application led February 19,192, Serial No. 94,769. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: l

Be it known that we, FREDERICK l-I. EICH- HORN, CHARLES 1I. EICHHORN,and FREDER- ICK P. DERNELL, citizens ofthe United States, and residentsof Athens, in the county of Greene and State of New York, have inventeda new and Improved Ice-Runway, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in runways or chutes fortransferring cakes of ice from an elevator or the like to an ice-houseor to a vessel; and the object is to provide a runway so constructedthat the ice cakes may be directed at will to different compartments orrooms of an ice-house or to different parts of a transporting-barge orthe like.

XVe will describe an ice-runway embodying our invention and then pointout the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding` parts in bothtigures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an icerunway embodying our invention,and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof.

Referring to the drawings, A designates what may be termed a section ofthe main runway, and B a section of a shunt-runway. The runway Aconsists of the side rails 1, connected by cross-strips 2, and extendedlongitudinally of the runway on these cross-strips 2 are the slats 3,consisting of metal or other suitable material. The shunt-section Bconsists of the side rails et, connected by. crossstrips 5, on which aresecured the longitudi- Daily-disposed slats 6. The upper end of thesection B has swinging connection with a hanger 7, connected to thesection A. As here shown, the hanger 7 is provided with eyes 8 toreceive the Vhook 9 on the end of the section B, and arranged upon thehorizontal portion 10 of the hanger are the curved portions of the slatsor strips Arranged in the section A is a trap consisting of slats 12,connected at the lower end to a cross-bar 13, which has hingedconnection with the side rails 1 ot' said section A. The opposite endsof these slats 12 rest when the section A is in use upon a cross-piece13, secured to the under sides of the side rails 1. The slats 12 areconnected near the front by a cross-piece 14, and the trap-section israised and lowered by means of a crank-shaft 15, having bearings iuboxes1G, secured to the side rails 1 of the section A. From one of the endsor journals of this crank-shaft an operating-handle 17 extends.

In operation, assuming that the ice is to be slid along the chute 8 andits' several other connections, it is placed from an elevator or thelike on' the upper end :c ofthe chute. At this time,of cou rse, the trap12 will be closed. After discharging a number of cakes of ice along thechute 8 it may be desired to discharge a number of cakes along the chuteB to a different room or a different place of storage. Therefore theattendant by drawing downward on the handle 7 will cause the trap 12 tobe moved upward to the position indicated in Fig. 2, when of course theice will pass down upon the section B of the runway. As the section Bhas hinge connection with the other section it is obvious that saidsection B -may be raised and lowered, as desired, or as the pile of iceincreases in the ice-house.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. An ice-runway comprising a main runway, ashunt-runway having swinging connection with the main runway, slatconnections for-directing ice from the inlet end of the main runway tothe shunt-runway, a trap mounted to swing in the main runway andnormally forming a portion of the bottom thereof, and means forelevating said trap to permit the passage of ice from the main runway tothe shunt-runway, substantially as specified.

2. An ice-runway comprising a mainrunway= consisting of side rails andbottom slats, a hanger on said main runway, a shunt-runway havingswinging connection With said hanger, slat connections fordirecting icefrom the inlet end of the main runway to the shuntnames t0 thisspecification in the presence of Io runway, a trap mounted to swing inthe main two subscribing witnesses.

runway and normally formino* a portion of 1 the bottom thereof, acrankshaftav havingi Swingin" connection with the main runway andengzging against the under side of the i f FREDERICK P' DERNELL trap,and a handle on said crank-shaft', sub- Witnesses:

stantially as specified. EDWARD A. GIFFORD,

In testimony whereofv we have signed our OLIVER G. PORTER.

